Eye Opener

A discreet, purple-lit sign marked the entrance to the Eve Club. During the 1960s and 70s, the tiny basement was filled with aristocrats, millionaires and celebrities. Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra and Errol Flynn came, as did politicians from both sides of the Iron Curtain.

The owner, Helen O'Brien, admitted after the club closed in 1992: "Of course there was sex, but not on the premises. If a girl and a client wanted to begin a relationship beyond the club, we chose to know nothing about it."

In 1973 Lord Lambton, a Tory government minister, was caught having sex with one of the club's hostesses, Norma Levy. Her husband, hidden in the wardrobe in her bedroom, took compromising photographs and then tried to sell a picture of Lambton, naked and enjoying